"You have heard of me, you knew of me ?" I still shook my head.

"No," said I, "I have been far in the West for several years, and have come to Washington but rarely.

Bear me out, I had not been there my third day before I found you!" We sat silent for some moments, fixedly regarding each other.

I have said that a more beautiful face than hers I had never seen.

There sat upon it now many things--youth, eagerness, ambition, a certain defiance; but, above all, a pleading pathos! I could not find it in my heart, eager as I was, to question her further.